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BETWEEN BORDERS (ENTRE FRONTEIRAS): Albert Heta, Alejandra Riera & Fulvia Carnevale, Anri Sala, Bojan Sarcevic, Chantal Akerman, Costa Vece, Ergin Çavusoglu, Guzmán de Yarza Blache, Jun Yang, Maja Bajevic, Marine Hugonnier, Muratbek Djumaliev & Gulnara Kasmalieva, Pierre Bismuth, Santiago Sierra, Sejla Kameric and Zineb Sedira

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BETWEEN BORDERS is a group exhibition that explores the ways in which borders define, question and document our world today. During the last twenty-five years we have seen many socio-political, cultural and economic changes, changes in the way we communicate, and in our ability to travel. Decisions about where and how we live and work all the more often concern the crossing of borders.

The artists and works grouped under this title each narrate all the different ways in which people's lives are affected by the borders, by the limits, by the frontiers. From their particular viewpoints they tell us about the traces and consequences of modern-day situations. Territory, displacements, memory and utopia constitute the leitmotiv of the show, inviting us to go beyond the contemplative and telling us about stories and conflicts, immigration and emigration, realities and fictions, spaces and their surroundings, about the sense of belonging, about individual and group identities, and also about ‘no-man's lands' and no-places.

We know the content and we know how to pinpoint it on today's geopolitical map. The Soviet past of Kyrgyzstan underlies the work of artists Muratbek Djumaliev and Gulnara Kasmalieva; Albert Heta betrays his Kosovar origins in a series that inevitably alludes to the recent conflict in the Balkans. The exhibition takes us from East to West, from Orient to Occident; from the Mountains with no name in the Pandjshêr Valley in Afghanistan, captured by Marine Hugonnier, to the Bosphorus separating Europe and Asia in Istambul as revealed to us through the eyes of Ergin Çavuşoğlu, in a border passage both physical and imaginary.

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